Tuesday

ESSAY CHECKLIST:

___Introduction pulls in the reader. Copy one of the sentences helps pull you into the topic and which makes you interested to continue reading.

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If you don't have a sentence like that, try something along these lines:

"Many students don't really like to read, but Robin Cody's book Ricochet River . . ."

"A great book should . . ."       "One the very first page of the novel Ricochet River we read, '. . .'"

"Pretty much all teenagers are interested in stories that _______________________"

"The theme of __________________ is something that most teenagers can relate to"

___I have a thesis. My thesis is ___________________________________________________

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__I quoted an example from the first 94 pages of the book

__I discussed that example for at least two sentences.

__I quoted an example from page 95-174 of the book

__I discussed that example for at least two sentences.

__I quoted an example from page 174-264 (end) of the book

__I discussed that example for at least two sentences.

__I used one of the following transitional words: "therefore," "also," "in particular," "for example," "likewise," "ordinarily," "in other words," "in the final analysis"
  Transitional words and phrases
__One of the themes I touch upon is: _________________________
__The most insightful sentence in my essay is: _____________________________________